LEADER 04471nam 2200673 450 001 9910682544803321 005 20220204183300.0 010 $a1-5292-1532-3 010 $a1-5292-1534-X 010 $a1-5292-1531-5 024 7 $a10.56687/9781529215335 035 $a(CKB)5590000000430038 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6427035 035 $a(OCoLC)1231205862 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse95865 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002592796 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781529215335 035 $a(DE-B1597)645581 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781529215335 035 $a(ScCtBLL)e5f6d172-73c7-4f4d-ab08-d9197356bda8 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000430038 100 $a20211203d2021|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlgorithms and the end of politics $ehow technology shapes 21st century American life /$fScott Timcke.cke$b[electronic resource] 205 $a1st. 210 1$aBristol :$cBristol University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 190 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aPolicy Press scholarship online 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022). 311 $a1-5292-1533-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aConclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule -- Mystification, rationalization, externalization -- References -- Index -- Back Cover 327 $aThe retreat from basic descriptions -- Courting disaster -- Institutionalizing hierarchy -- 5 The Whiteness of Communication Studies -- The conception of progress -- Race in America -- Misrecognition and modernity -- Capitalism's extra- economic dimensions -- 6 Misinformation and Ideology -- Popular rhetorics of misinformation -- Ideology and politics -- Reactionary racial agendas -- Externalization -- 7 Testbeds for Authoritarianism -- The reconceptualization of war -- Experimentation on new frontiers -- Blended information warfare -- Technology as the so- called solution to the social question 327 $aLiberation is not opaque -- 2 The One- Dimensionality of Data -- Acemoglu and Robinson's econometrics -- The politics of quantities -- Reification, mystification and alienation -- The spector of positivism -- A depoliticization of the social question -- 3 Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class -- Finance and class struggle -- Downplaying class differentiation -- Information robber barons -- Infrastructures for reactionary politics -- Ruling class solidarity -- 4 Platforms of Power -- Staving off class struggle 'from below' -- Democratic socialism was the compromise 327 $aFront Cover -- Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st- Century American Life -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Great Simplification -- Computation and the social question -- The limits of progressive neoliberal social theory -- Communication and the end of neoliberal politics -- A material consolidation -- Summary and outlook -- 1 Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology -- Data, politics and rights -- The code of capital -- Code as material governance -- Computational reason 330 $aThis book is a timely analysis of the growing impact of digital technologies on populism in the US and beyond. Scott Timcke uses Marxist analysis to explore the way digital devices, social networks, data and algorithms, and the technology giants that lie behind them, are changing the way people think about politics and society. 410 0$aPolicy Press scholarship online. 606 $aInformation technology$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aInformation technology$xSocial aspects 606 $aInformation technology$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aAlgorithms$xPolitical aspects 606 $aAlgorithms$xSocial aspects 615 0$aInformation technology$xSocial aspects 615 0$aInformation technology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aInformation technology$xHistory 615 0$aAlgorithms$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aAlgorithms$xSocial aspects. 676 $a303.483309730905 700 $aTimcke$b Scott$0935283 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910682544803321 996 $aAlgorithms and the end of politics$93086972 997 $aUNINA